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...candidates were also garnered similar favorability ratings among the critical bloc of unenrolled voters...
...this is an especially important bloc for Romney because registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by an over two-to-one margin...
...uproot almost all of its coca shrubs--only to see Morales, 42, and his left-wing Movement to Socialism engineer an astonishing protest this year that could force Bolivia's next government to let the plants flourish again. "The coca leaf," says Morales, whose party took the second largest bloc of seats in parliamentary elections in June, "is our new national flag...
...Palestinian population has not destroyed the militants' ability to strike. The gunmen, dressed in Israeli military uniform, set off a roadside bomb, which halted the bus, and then gunned down the passengers as they fled. Two groups - Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Yasser Arafat's Fatah bloc, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - claimed responsibility for the bus attack. IRELAND Apology to Civilians The I.R.A. made an unprecedented and unexpected statement of apology to the more than 600 "noncombatants" it killed in its campaign to unite Ireland. The statement said that the current peace process...
...treatment. Palestine, said Bush, needs a "new constitution" and reform based on "market economics." That's hard to argue with, given the shambolic state of the Palestinian Authority, but Israel doesn't have a written constitution and for decades had one of the most socialized economies outside the Soviet bloc. Yet one struggles to remember an American President making aid to Israel incumbent on reform of the labor laws...